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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by rpiguy on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @04:51PM (#15022391)
Sensitivity training would not have helped and is not required here.

He went out of his way to praise women engineers and to emphasize he supports diversity.

There are just certain that intolerant people cannot discuss rationally, like biological gender differences.

The fault lies with the intolerant minds, not Damore's approach.

Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by jshevek on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @07:46PM (#15023801)
Yes, the fault lies with intolerant minds.

If we forget this, then intolerant minds will have awesome veto powers over what the rest of us will be allowed to discuss.

Intolerant people are likely to use those veto powers.

Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by Delmania on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @05:04PM (#15022558)
That's victim blaming. His claims that he supports diversity are nothing more than false virtue-signaling. I have yet to find a person who would say there are no biological gender differences. The problem is assuming those differences are the underlying cause for why women and minorities are under represented in technology. Were you aware the first programmers were females? There are -many- reasons why women and minorities are underrepresented. The biological differences are not a significant one.
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by rpiguy on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @05:47PM (#15022976)
Damore is the victim of an aggressive and intolerant mob. I am certainly not victim blaming.
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo by backpropaganda on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @05:32PM (#15022839)
> Were you aware the first programmers were females?

That was when there were some low thousands of software engineers in total. Hardly statistically significant to compare with today's population.

The first few engineers were female because of sexism in the 1970s. The only mainstream jobs they were allowed to have were teaching and programming. There are fewer females now because of lack of sexism not due to it. As society became liberal, women started becoming doctors and lawyers, which matches with their interests much more than programming.